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不羈逃情
11月2日 情慾過界

毫無道德法旨的才子 放蕩不羈的一生
每個年代總有一個放蕩不羈的風流才子，要數十七世紀英國的代表人物，又怎少得羅撤斯特伯爵二世尊韋爾莫 (John Wilmot)。《不?逃情》就是改編自這個傳奇人物的一生，回顧這個不守禮教的才子短暫的一生。

查理斯二世雖然成功復辟，但內憂外患仍然嚴重，常要依賴貴族才子尊韋爾莫的影響力鞏固政權。尊韋爾莫雖然貴為國王的寵臣，卻因為率直放蕩而多次被放逐。他生活荒淫頹廢，酗酒如命，縱酒胡鬧；喜歡創作，但所寫的都是淫穢詩詞，或是揶揄國王荒淫無度的舞台劇；風流成性，到處留情，鍾情於舞台劇演員伊莉莎伯而冷落家中嬌妻。這個玩世不恭的浪蕩子，最終患上梅毒，結束了三十三年的生命。

頹廢貴族真人真事 文學藝術才華出眾
故事主人翁尊韋爾莫是英國貴冑，父親為羅撤斯特伯爵一世，曾幫助國王查理斯二世脫險。尊韋爾莫12歲就入讀牛津大學，14歲得到文學碩士學位，未到20歲就立下戰功。他撰寫了不少諷刺國王宮廷的作品，成為英國諷刺詩的奠基人。滿以為一代年輕才俊從此誕生，可惜這個才子只縱情聲色，用天賦才華撰寫令人嗤之以鼻的淫詩，把精神時間都放在舞台劇演員伊莉莎伯身上。曾有劇作家把尊韋爾莫傳奇一生搬上舞台，由尊麥高維治擔演舞台劇主角，誰知他被這個人物吸引深深著，於是就跟編劇史提芬傑佛利斯及導演羅倫斯鄧摩合作，製作《不羈逃情》。

社會風氣放蕩 造就恃才傲物的浪子誕生
現代人眼中，尊韋爾莫的生活可能是一塌糊塗，但十七世紀英國人眼中，他卻是萬人景仰。當時查理斯二世剛重奪帝位，雖然藝術和科學都蓬勃發展，但政治鬥爭、經濟危機等問題仍然嚴重，人們追求的是精神和生活上的自由，形成一種放蕩的風氣。像尊韋爾莫一樣過著頹廢生活的公子哥兒比比皆是，日日酒池肉林，沉迷戲劇。正因如此，行為乖張的尊韋爾莫才得到這麼多人尊重，在社會裡有這麼大的影響力，國王也得忌他三分。

嚴選拍攝場地 巧妙運用燈光環境營造氣氛
為了把十七世紀的倫敦完完本本呈現在觀眾眼前，導演對選擇拍攝場地一絲不苟，到處尋找充滿十七世紀味道的城堡和村落，最後決定整個攝影棚移施至威爾斯的Tretower Court、薩默塞特郡、牛津郡。除此之外，導演盡量利用自然光線和微弱燭光，配合煙霧迷漫、迷濛夜雨的景象，藉以營造陰沉的氣氛，予人頹廢之感。

尊尼特普才情橫溢 演活十七世紀響噹噹人物
導演為尊韋爾莫選角時，腦子裡第一時間閃過的就是尊尼特普這個名字。外貌俊俏的尊尼特普一直予人不羈的感覺，善於扮演風流倜儻、行為乖張的角色，如《無頭谷》裡行為怪異的調查員、《朱古力獎門人》裡古怪孤僻的廠長、《魔盜王》裡亦正亦邪的海盜等，全都維妙維肖，絕對是演尊韋爾莫最合適人選。為了演好這個角色，尊尼特普做了很多資料搜集，例如到大英圖書館借閱了尊韋爾莫寫給妻子及母親的親筆信，慢慢代入角色之中。

導演資料
羅倫斯鄧摩
《不?逃情》是羅倫斯鄧摩第一部執導的電影，他之前一直從事平面設計工作，曾為羅倫祖夫執導的《戰火浮生》設計宣傳物品及標誌，偶爾會拍攝一些音樂錄影帶和廣告，後來更全職投身導演工作，獲獎無數，曾為BMW、AT&T、Amex拍攝廣告。

演員資料
尊尼特普
一部《幻海奇緣》令尊尼特普一舉成名，得到金球獎最佳男主角提名，成為荷里活當紅男明星。他的代表作有很多，近期最為人熟悉的作品，相信非《魔盜王》系列電影莫屬了。憑著《魔盜王－決戰鬼盜船》裡的精湛演出，尊尼特普不但獲得奧斯卡、金球獎、英國電影電視藝術獎提名，更榮獲Screen Actor's Guild Award最佳男主角。另外，早前他跟琦溫斯莉和德斯汀荷夫曼合作的《小飛俠前傳之魔幻童心》，同樣得到奧斯卡等各大獎項提名。

森曼花摩頓
在卡琳艾德勒執導的《心靈深處》中嶄露頭角，榮獲波士頓影評人協會最佳女主角，後又參演活地亞倫導演的《甜蜜的結局》(Sweet and Lowdown)，鋒芒畢露，獲得奧斯卡及金球獎最佳女配角提名。森曼花摩頓最為人熟悉的作品，是跟湯告魯斯合作的《未來報告》。

尊麥高維治
兼任本片監製的尊麥高維治，是現今電影界最炙手可熱的男演員之一，常參演美國甚至國際的大製作，曾兩次獲得奧斯卡最佳男配提名，後憑《玩謝麥高維治》得到紐約影評人協會獎的最佳男配角。

羅莎曼派克
出身於歌劇世家，十六歲開始在著名的倫敦國家青年劇院演出，經過差不多三年寒暑，終於能成為《羅密歐與茱麗葉》的女主角。後來她投身電影界，演出作品如《新鐵金剛之不日殺機》、《傲慢與偏見》。

不羈逃情
11月2日 情慾過界

The Libertine

Opens 2 November

About the Story

In every generation, there comes along a person so scandalous, so rebellious, so willing to break taboos that they topple the world's ideas of what being a free spirit truly means. In the 17th century that person was unequivocally John Wilmot, AKA the 2nd Earl of Rochester - the wily and talented rogue who lived his short, wild life like a Restoration rock star and become known all at once as a troublemaker, a genius and one of history's most irrepressible believers in liberty.

Set against the extraordinary backdrop of The Restoration - a pivotal age of enlightenment when rapid-fire new developments in science, religion and the arts, as well as a growing new sensual freedom, created the modern world as we know it - THE LIBERTINE follows the meteoric rise and fall of the Earl. As the story begins, he is drawing acclaim with his daring writing and raising eyebrows as a gifted rogue with a lascivious lifestyle. A close confidante of the high-living King Charles II (two-time Academy Award nominee John Malkovich), the Earl delights in lampooning England's royals with his subversive wit and scandalizing London society with his sexual escapades - all the while reveling in getting away with anything he can.

But when the Earl falls in love with Elizabeth Barry (two-time Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton), the theatrical protege he plans to turn into England's biggest star, their affair and a subsequent betrayal will be the start of the Earl's plunge from the heights of social celebrity to the depths of ruin, as he seeks his final redemption.

The Origin of The Libertine

John Wilmot was born in 1647, the son of the First Earl of Rochester, into an England that was emerging from the Middle Ages and heading into a decadent first brush with modern times and morals. Demonstrating a youthful brilliance, Rochester went off at the age of 12 to study at Oxford, where it was said that he first "grew debauched." After becoming a young hero in sea battles against the Dutch, he developed a reputation across Europe as a highly unconventional personality -- at once brilliant and dangerously blasphemous. Though his sexually explicit poems and satirical plays shocked the critics of the day, they also made him a leading literary light, later to be admired by Defoe, quoted by Tennyson and an inspiration to Voltaire.

His fame really began to grow when he joined the court of King Charles II, the charismatic monarch who was known for his tolerance, merriment and love of the arts. Still, even the forward-thinking King did not know how to handle this firebrand genius. Though he held great affection for Rochester, the King was incensed by the man's libelous plays and wicked pranks, not to mention his innumerable sexual dalliances and devil-may-care willingness to criticize even the King himself. Rochester often drew fame for his bold adventures, including the kidnapping of his future wife, the then teen-aged heiress Elizabeth Malet. Though he was imprisoned in the infamous Tower of London for his crime, the young Earl begged for and received the King's forgiveness. Not only that, but his young victim agreed to marry him.

Even in the bawdy atmosphere of Charles II's court, Rochester stood out as a man apart. Yet, the ultimate price of Rochester's personal freedom may well have been his own destruction. At the height of his celebrity, the 2nd Earl of Rochester entered into a series of escapades that would lead him into unremitting darkness, drunkenness and regret. During this period he concentrated his efforts not on his own life, but on helping Elizabeth Barry realize her place as the greatest actress on the London stage. He died at the early age of 33, although not before experiencing a last-minute epiphany of redemption for his soul on his deathbed.

The Cast of The Libertine

To play the Restoration rebel who dares the audience to like him in spite of his unbridled decadent ways, the filmmakers always had one leading man in mind: Johnny Depp. The charismatic actor known for bringing his own edgy spin to some of contemporary cinema's most memorable roles - from rabble-rousing Captain Jack in "The Pirates of the Caribbean" to the iconic Willy Wonka in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was immediately taken by the opportunity presented to him as he makes clear "From an actors standpoint, you read that opening monologue and then the ride commences. You know when you are reading that beautiful dialogue and these amazing, incredible scenes one after the next, that you'll never ever see the likes of that again."

While Dunmore celebrated, Depp immersed himself in the role: "My approach was to learn the guy and to learn everything I could about him, to understand why, how did he arrive there… how did he arrive at that need for such excess and the need for self medication ? Because I don't think it was about fun for him". And the more the research he did, the more inspired by the characters he became, "I was given the opportunity to go to the British Library and to read some of his letters, in his own hand. Something that I found amazing and surprising and shocking in a way, were his letters to his wife and his letters to his mother; which were very very soft most of the time. Very delicate, very soft and sweet. Even ending at times with "May God bless you and keep you". From this guy who was, by all accounts, a great atheist….that really confused me and intrigued me."

With Depp taking on the role of Rochester, John Malkovich chose to play King Charles II, the jovial ruler and forward thinker who became another of the era' most beloved and written-about characters. The two figures were engaged in one of the periods' more complicated relationships. Rochester's father (also named John Wilmot) was created the Earl of Rochester in 1652 for military services to Charles II and is credited with having helped hide the King in a tree to prevent him from being murdered. He died abroad two years before the restoration of monarchy in England.

Says Malkovich, "Charles felt fatherly leanings toward Rochester, I suppose, and fathers (or fatherly figures) often indulge when they really probably should not. If someone is extraordinarily talented, they almost always can get away with murder if they choose to." Another of the complications between the two he suspects involved their mutual admiration of women and drink. "It's sort of, well, 'I drink all the time and I have sex all the time and I'm still at work at 8:30.' That there was time to enjoy life, as you say, and still get on with your life's work. Rochester was never really able to do that and Charles was. I think that was a source of friction not just from Charles toward Rochester but also from Rochester toward Charles."

About the Production

In THE LIBERTINE, director Laurence Dunmore set out to capture the wildly shifting moods of Rochester's times with a gritty, in-your-face realism that hasn't been brought to the period before. He did so by focusing not only on the opulence and splendor of the court but the dingy, rank dynamism of the city streets.

"I was looking to create a film where you could practically smell the atmosphere," he notes. "I wanted to forge a very real 17th century look that didn't feel like it was created in the 21st century. I wanted to use as much natural light as possible and I wanted to swamp the screen with mud, mist, rain and smoke. I wanted there to be a big contrast between Rochester's stately home life and the tremendous energy, excitement and movement of his life in London."

Dunmore's decision to highlight both the elaborate decadence and the seedier sides of the Restoration meant he would need an extremely skilled and creative design team. At the center of it was cinematographer Alex Melman who collaborated closely with Dunmore in developing a unique look for the film.

"Rochester is a man who drank and loved his way to an early grave so we wanted to give THE LIBERTINE a kind of darkness and rawness not usually associated with period movies," he explains. "We didn't want a clean, pretty look. We wanted the grungiest, dirtiest look we could find! But even though there's a lot of mud and smoke in the film, at the same time there's a beauty that comes out of all the dirt and haze. The film is very beautiful in its own way."

Melman worked with production designer Ben Van Os (Oscar nominee The Girl with a Pearl Earring and Orlando) and costume designer Dien Van Straalen (Oscar nominee The Girl with a Pearl Earring) to come up with a very detailed color palette that is woven throughout the film's entire design and enhanced with primarily natural light. "Everything was in a muted, dirty zone," he says of the film's hues. "We worked with a combination of filters in antique suede, jade green and storm blue. We lit pretty much everything with candles and we even used green filters to take away any warmth from the candles and put a kind of green pallor into all the flesh tones."

Also essential to the film was getting the locations right. Dunmore logged a remarkable 8,000 miles on his car roaming Britain in search of authentic-feeling castles and estates. Eventually, the film's locations included Tretower Court in Wales -- one of the best surviving examples of a medieval gentleman's mansion; a number of National Trust properties in Somerset such as Montecute near Yeovil and Charlecute in Oxfordshire; Hampton Court Palace in Surrey; and the magnificent Wells Cathedral. For the interiors, the production traveled to the Isle of Man, an up and coming bastion for filmmakers on the Irish Sea, where the film's sets were built by Ben Van Os.

About the Director

Laurence Dunmore

Laurence Dunmore makes his feature film directorial debut with THE LIBERTINE. Born in, Essex, United Kingdom, Dunmore studied Graphic Design and Media at the London College of Printing. Dunmore then worked for independent graphic designer Howard Brown where he first came into contact with the film industry, designing promotional materials and logos for Roland Joffe's The Mission amongst others. He became senior designer with Pentagram Design before setting up his own consultancy, Laurence Dunmore Design, in 1986.

After twelve years of design, predominantly for the record industry, both on a corporate level and individual artist campaigns, Dunmore transformed a part time pursuit of directing the occasional music videos and commercial into a full time career. He joined Ridley Scott Associates in 1997, receiving acclaim as Commercial Directions Creative Future by industry magazine Creative Review in 1998.

His creative advertisements continued to gain notoriety and to spark controversy, Dunmore's work in 2000 for the Commission for Racial Equality grabbed both tabloid and broadsheet headlines when various UK personalities and sports persons provocatively posed the question "Would you think differently about me?" as their skin and features changed their ethnic origin. Other highly regarded spots for Peugeot and Johnny Walker brought him to a more narrative storytelling style.

Recent work included a series of spots for Adidas, shot on DV camera, documenting the comedic and surreal effect of sports personalities on everyday lives The ads resulted in a Silver Lion at Cannes in 2001 and a silver pencil at D&AD Awards 2002. Dunmore has also filmed award winning work for BMW, AT&T, Amex and ING Bank for the North American Market. In 2002 he directed a controversial spot for AXE/Lynx, receiving a Gold Lion at Cannes.

About the Cast

Johnny Depp (The Earl of Rochester)

Johnny Depp has earned both critical and popular acclaim for his unique work in a variety of memorable feature films. Most recently, he received an Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe nomination, BAFTA nomination and a Screen Actor's Guild Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow in the action adventure Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He is currently filming Pirates of the Caribbean 3.

It was his compelling performance in the title role of Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands that established Depp as one of Hollywood's most sought-after talents and earned him a Best Actor Golden Globe nomination. He was honored with a second Golden Globe nomination for his work in the offbeat love story Benny & Joon, directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik. Depp reunited with Burton for the critically acclaimed Ed Wood, for which his performance garnered him his third Best Actor Golden Globe nomination.

Depp began his career as a musician, joining a rock group named "Kids," which eventually took him to Los Angeles. When the band broke up, he turned to acting and earned his first major acting job in Nightmare on Elm Street. He went on to earn roles in several films including Oliver Stone's Academy Award-winning Platoon. Depp then won the role that would prove to be his breakthrough, as undercover detective Tom Hanson on the popular Fox television show 21 Jump Street. He starred on the series for four seasons before segueing to the big screen in the lead role of John Waters' Cry Baby.

Depp starred and made his feature directorial debut opposite Marlon Brando in The Brave, a film based on the novel by Gregory McDonald. Depp co-wrote the screenplay with his brother, D.P. Depp.

Samantha Morton (Elizabeth Barry)

Samantha Morton first gained international recognition for her role in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, for which she received both Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress.

Morton first came to the attention of film audiences in her much acclaimed role as Iris in Carine Adler's Under the Skin, for which she received the Boston Film Critics' Award as Best Actress. She was also seen in Alison Maclean's Jesus' Son, opposite Billy Crudup and following this she featured in Julien Temple's Pandaemonium and in Amos Gitai's Eden. She went on to take on the title role in Lynn Ramsay's critically acclaimed Morvern Caller, which she followed with Steven Spielberg's Minority Report opposite Tom Cruise.

Most recently Morton appeared in Jim Sheridan's In America, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Actress category and Roger Michell's Enduring Love opposite Ryhs Ifans and Daniel Craig. She recently completed Vincent Ward's River Queen.

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